Four new members of the GOP convention rules committee are in favor of scrappijng a rule that requires the GOP nominee to receive a majority of votes in 8 primaries, thus potentially throwing open a brokered convention to candidates who never entered a single contest. The rule was pushed through by Romney forces in 2012 to keep Ron Paul from speaking at the convention. Now, it may be repealed to stop Donald Trump from winning the nomination. Politico: If Trump doesn’t effectively clinch the Republican nomination by the June 7 end of the primary season, the rules committee is destined to be the epicenter of political wrangling and horse-trading leading up to what would be the first contested convention since 1976. Wheeler and the three other early appointees to the panel hail from Louisiana and South Dakota. Eventually, the committee will include a man and a woman from every state and U.S. territory — a total of 112 people. But interviews with the four...(Read Full Post)